- Daisy Grant: You don't know anything about us, Mr. Barnow.
- Michael 'Mike B' Barnow: I know everything about you, Maisy.
- Daisy Grant: Daisy.
- Matt Mahoney: He's combining our names, reducing us to a single insignificant unit.
- Elizabeth McCord: [to her daughter at the supper table] Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah! Sweetie, what are you doing? Just pushing your food around. We agreed. I cook one night a week, and we all just get through it.
- Elizabeth McCord: You're giving me that 'you're an idiot' look.
- Michael 'Mike B' Barnow: Because you're an idiot!
- Michael 'Mike B' Barnow: You're in a knife fight with Chairman Burke. The way to win a knife fight is to bring a gun and waste the son of a bitch.
- Elizabeth McCord: [to her staff] That was a big mess.
- Michael 'Mike B' Barnow: That was a sack full of mangled kittens in the hot sun two weeks old. That's what that was.
- Elizabeth McCord: [She and Henry are watching a cooking show and more or less talking over each other] I can't believe it. He's going for risotto.
- Henry McCord: You always lose with that one. It's the Waterloo of food.
- Elizabeth McCord: Right? I know. What is the deal? You can't cook it fast.
- Henry McCord: Like gnocchi.
- Elizabeth McCord: They ought to know it.
- Henry McCord: Gnocchi.
- Elizabeth McCord: They never learn.
- Henry McCord: They always lose with gnocchi, too.
- Elizabeth McCord: Well. Because you think it's gonna be good, but it's not. In the end, it really is just doughy potato balls.
- Henry McCord: That's what I'm sayin'.
- Elizabeth McCord: That's it.
- Henry McCord: I don't understand this whole kale thing. It used to grow wild in the backyard when I was a kid, and now it's the basis for a $20 salad.
- Michael 'Mike B' Barnow: [Walks up to Blake's desk with his dog at his side] Good afternoon. Is she in?
- Blake Moran: I'm sorry. You are...
- Michael 'Mike B' Barnow: Michael Barnow.
- [Looks at his dog]
- Michael 'Mike B' Barnow: This is Gordon. You must be Blake.
- Blake Moran: Uh... yes. Um, I don't have...
- Michael 'Mike B' Barnow: She knows I'm coming.
- [Starts towards Elizabeth's office]
- Blake Moran: Wait a minute. Uh... this is not a dog friendly environment.
- Michael 'Mike B' Barnow: It's okay. He's not sensitive.